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Friday, March 8, 2013

Florida Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Anti-Sharia Bill

by Robert Spencer

Hamas-linked CAIR and other
Islamic supremacist groups have consistently and successfully argued
that anti-Sharia laws would infringe upon Muslims' religious rights.
They still make headway using that argument with judges and lawmakers
who are ignorant of the nature of Sharia.

In reality, no one cares about individual Muslim religious practice
or wants to restrict it. The purpose of anti-Sharia laws is not to stop
Muslims from getting married in Islamic religious ceremonies or to
restrict their religious practice in other ways, but to stop the
political and supremacist aspects of Islam that infringe upon the rights
and freedoms of non-Muslims, denying the freedom of speech, the freedom
of conscience, and the equality of rights of all people before the law.
This is the case that must be made, but it still hasn't been. This bill
is certain to be challenged on the same grounds.

A renewed attempt to pass a controversial "foreign law" bill
proposed by Sen. Alan Hays, R-Umatilla, and Rep. Larry Metz, R-Yahala,
was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, after more
than an hour of sometimes emotional public testimony.
The bill, SB 58, bans courts or other legal authorities from using
religious or foreign law as a part of a legal decision or contract
relating to family law. Florida law would supercede foreign law
regarding divorce, alimony, the division of marital assets, child
support and child custody. The bill is ready to be heard on the House
floor but it has more committee stops in the Senate. Last year, the bill
passed the House but died in the Senate.Supporters say the proposal isn’t targeting religious groups, but the
bill has been criticized as anti-Sharia, a Koran-based code followed in
some Islamic countries, by Islamic groups as well as Jewish
organizations and the American Civil Liberties Union."It should raise some eyebrows for you, the fact that there’s a rabbi
speaking out against the bill who’s from Israel and a Arab Muslim,
that’s me, also speaking out against the bill," said Ahmed Bedier,
president of the United Voices for America. "We may disagree what is
happening in the Middle East, but we agree on this bill — that it
discriminates and targets our communities."

Not really. Bedier, of course, is a former rep of Hamas-linked CAIR.

Robert SpencerSource: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/03/florida-senate-judiciary-committee-approves-anti-sharia-bill.htmlCopyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.